Google Fined $593 Million in France Over Treatment of News Publishers
July 13 2021 - 4:35AM
Dow Jones News
By Sam Schechner
PARIS--France's Competition Authority has fined Google $593
million for allegedly violating orders to negotiate paid deals with
news publishers, raising pressure on the company in a global fight
over how and whether tech companies should pay for news.
The French competition regulator said Tuesday that Google had
violated the regulator's 2020 orders that its Alphabet Inc. parent
company must negotiate with publishers for the right to show
snippets of their content in its search result. Those orders came
after complaints from publishers that Google was sidestepping
France's implementation of a new European Union copyright
directive.
Google has since reached paid deals with some French news
publishers, such as Le Monde and Le Figaro, but not with
others.
"We are very disappointed with this decision," a Google
spokeswoman said. "We have acted in good faith throughout the
entire process. The fine ignores our efforts to reach an agreement,
and the reality of how news works on our platforms."
Write to Sam Schechner at sam.schechner@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 13, 2021 04:34 ET (08:34 GMT)
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